Prevent Ticks and Chiggers

• Chiggers have six legs, are less than 1/50 inch long, and are a red-orange color.
• They feed on reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and birds which are their normal hosts.
• People are "accidental" hosts.
• Chiggers, or “Red Bugs,” are not insects. They are the larval stage of mites that belong to the family Trombivulidae.
• Chiggers do not burrow into the skin or suck blood. Rather they suck tissue fluids with their mouth parts.
• A Chigger attaches to its host, injects digestive enzymes into the bite wound, and then sucks up the digested tissue.
• After it has completed its meal, the Chigger drops off the host and molts into an eight-legged nymph. If it is successful in finding food, the nymph molts into an adult mite.
• The Chiggers that attach to the clothing of humans are often encountered in two types of habitats: second growth, brushy areas of shrubs and brambles and low-lying, damp areas of vegetation bordering marshes and swamps.
• Chigger bites can cause terrible itching and weeping, red welts that can continue long after the mites have died. The itching may last up to 2 or 3 weeks.
• Don't let the Chiggers become a host in your home, use our BAGTHEBUGS™ to treat any article of clothing,backpack or tent that you may have picked up a bug on,while on your hunting trip,hiking trip or walk in the woods or garden.